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There is something aboutspringtime that makesus want to get our handsdirty and our housesclean. Madison College’s version o spring cleaningis analyzing every system or ultimate efciency andletting in every resh idea or cost-savings. We arealso growing and fndingcost-eective measures toget our students everything they need to suc-ceed in their careers. Cultivating employablestudents has always been our mission.During these difcult economic times, wecould not do this without the support o our aculty, support sta and administrators who have made personal sacrifces to helpMadison College. These actions by ourcolleagues ensure that service levels orour students will be maintained throughoutthe district.Our ull-time aculty union and our support workers’ union opened their contracts andagreed to pay part o their retirement costs, which amounts to about a 6 percent pay cut. They also accepted much smaller pay increases than those previously bargained. Administrators will also pay part o theirretirement costs and know raises in the near uture will be slim or nonexistent. Some o our veteran part-time aculty also agreed topay the retirement cost.I am very proud that we are clearly united atMadison College in a commitment to studentsuccess. These recent agreements show that

Spring 2011

s Madison College prepares or its second 100 years o worker training, students, alumni and riends are askingtheir neighbors to “stand up” or student needs in new andimportant ways!Jake Weigandt, Student Senate president, said students needto see that their community stands up or working people.“Many o us who’ve had lie-changing training at the Collegeare showing our support or students. We’re the ones who willlead the Madison area into an exciting uture o green jobs,health careers, public saety roles, revolutionary manuacturinginnovations and high tech business growth,” Weigandt said.Student success is the vision that drove the new building planapproved by voters in November. Now we must keep the visionstrong and that means asking our alumni and riends to stand up or Madison College. Weigandt announced the College started a “Stand Up”campaign to ask our community to become inormed, to getengaged and to stay involved by sharing emails o ellow alumni with the Foundation, making gits to honor programs or avoriteteachers — and even just attending College events.“Wisconsin can’t be open or business i we aren’t open to trainpeople or jobs,” said President Bettsey Barhorst, reerring to Gov.Scott Walker’s goal to create 250,000 new jobs in the next our years.“Our new acilities will spur job creation in unprecedented ways. We are energized and ocused on our next 100 years,” said Barhorst.

“Wisconsin can’tbe open forbusiness if wearen’t open totrain people fortheir jobs.”

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our instructors, sta and administrators will give up personal benefts to makesure that our worker training and collegetranser programs continue with the samerigor and student-centric instruction theCollege has oered or almost 100 years. We are reaching out to you to underscorethat the unions and administrators havetaken measures that are not sustainable or an institution that runs a leanoperation even in the best o economictimes. The proposed state budget, as yet unapproved at press time, sets theCollege’s budget amounts to 1980sspending levels at the very time thatenrollments at the College have surged22 percent during the previous fve years. Against this back drop o commitment rom our colleagues, the College will move orward with our Smart Future Buildingplan and we anticipate we will haveshovels in the ground by late summer.I am so grateul or your support o thisPlan, through last all’s reerendum.I want to assure you that we will make theimprovements and upgrades necessary to train students or 21st century jobs.For now we are ocusing all o our eortson maintaining instructional access andservice levels across the entire district. We are sharpening our eorts to increasestudent retention and completion o certifcates and degrees. We know this isthe astest way to jobs or our studentsand the best way we can support ourlocal economy.Please review the Madison College website at madisoncollege.org to seehow we will build or our uture whileundergoing these signifcant budget cuts.Look or the hard hat icon on our websiteto view our progress!I assure you that student success willremain at the core o every measure wetake and we will live up to our mission o providing accessible, high quality learningexperiences that serve the community.Happy spring!Bettsey L. Barhorst, Ph. D.President

“We are so grateul to our district or thechance to help secure amily-supporting jobs in this challenging time.”Buoyed by the landslide support orthe College’s building plans in the 2010reerendum, Barhorst led teams o aculty,students and sta in thoughtul plans orcutting edge acilities at the nine sites thatserve about 40,000 students each year.(See story about the new Health Educationbuilding on page 3.) While the campuses busily prepareblueprints and get needed buildingpermits, the College is ocusing on the work o the Madison College Foundationto build an ever stronger community o supporters.“The need or scholarships or students who are taking ull course loads hasexploded,” said Robert Dinndor, executivedirector o the Foundation. “At the sametime, we need the support o alumni and riends to ensure our new acilities willbe well-equipped.”Dinndor encourages donors tocelebrate the Centennial theme ina program designed to count ouralumni and riends “by the hundreds.”College supporters can put their

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Scholarships fueleconomic recovery

conomists look to small businessowners to jump start the economicrecovery, but without a Madison CollegeFoundation scholarship, Maria Kovach would not have been able to help.Kovach, 44, who is a part-time interiordesign student at the College, a veterano the United States Air Force and AirNational Guard and a mother o our,received a Lussier Family scholarship when she returned to college to pursue herdream o becoming an interior designer. Ater her frst year in the program, Kovachstarted her own business, Belsö Design, which specializes in remodeling andrevitalizing existing spaces. Her clientsdescribe her as proessional, creative andenthusiastic. Kovach graduates in May,2011, and is looking orward to runningher local business ull time.Each year the Foundation awardshundreds o scholarships to students likeMaria but it is notenough. This semesterthe College has nearly 300 students who areon a waiting list or ascholarship.Please considermaking an investmentin our community’s uture by donating tothe Madison CollegeFoundation’s Forward Fund that providesscholarships to new and continuingstudents. Visit us online atmadisoncollegealumni.org/donations, call 608.246.6441 or mail your git to the Madison College Founda-tion, 3550 Anderson St., Madison, WI 53704. To apply or a Foundation scholarship, visit us online atmadisoncollege.org/ scholarships. The deadline or the Fall 2011Continuing Student Scholarship is May 31.

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stamp on the new acilities with many options or naming rights, by honoringthose who have helped them, by becominginvolved in College activities or even by oering planned gits or the uture o the College. “By the hundreds” is opento interpretation: 100 involved alumni,$100 gits, 100 scholarships…we invite you to share your ideas with us…by thehundreds!So, help us count you in! Stand up or working people. Stand up or the workersin our uture community. Stand up by thehundreds with a git o time or money.I you are willing to “Stand Up” or Madison College, simply join the Alumni and Friends’ Facebook page at acebook.com/madisoncollegeriends.

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s Madison College leaders plan tobreak ground in the next ew monthson a Health Education building, they oeralumni and riends new opportunities tohelp the innovative acilities improvementplan.Donors can sponsor spaces, structuresand even entire buildings. These acilities will carry the names o donors or they canbe dedicated to a amily member or as amemorial.“For almost 100 years, the College hastrained workers or amily-supporting jobs,” said President Bettsey Barhorst. “We want to honor or the next 100 years those who will spearhead the 2011 re-inventiono Madison College with the naming o our acilities or those generous souls.”Plans or the $134-million frst phaseo a comprehensive improvement plan atall nine sites o the College began in 2005 when students urged changes to then new-ly hired President Barhorst. In late March,2011, Barhorst’s vision or 21st century acilities to train workers or the economicrecovery began to take orm with approvalo initial projects rom the Wisconsin State Technical College System Board (WTCS).Dubbed the Smart Future Building Plan,the estimated $350 million plan or the next15 years starts with the Health Educationbuilding, a $43-million building to be locat-ed at the northwest corner o Anderson and Wright streets on Truax campus. In additionto classroom and lab space, the buildingalso may host a dental and health clinic.

job is the greatest orm o philan-thropy, according to amed Minnesotaphilanthropist Marilyn Carlson. It’s a phi-losophy that Madison College Foundationdonors have embraced with their gits. The Foundation works to support theCollege mission o providing access tohigh-quality learning experiences or all inour community. Scholarships expand ac-cess to learning. Endowed scholarships doso permanently.In May 2010, National Guardian LieInsurance Company commemorated itsCentennial with a generous git o $100,000to the College’s Foundation, establishing

Draft rendering of proposed Health ducation buildingBy Madison College Foundation StaffBy Robert Dinndorf, Madison College Foundation

Students will learn with updatedclassrooms and state-o-the-art equipmentnow unavailable in the crowded acilities,particularly on the third oor o Truax.“The many years o planning yieldedan environmentally riendly building that will set a new standard or instruction and acilities at our College,” Barhorst said.“We give thanks to our district or thisgit to our students and to the economicrecovery that worker training will spur.”District voters approved a $134 millionreerendum in November, 2010, to start thebuilding plan.Facilities managers said they hope inMay the WTCS will approve the College’sproposal or a Protective Services Center where frefghters, law enorcement andother related workers will be trained. Alsoon tap is the construction o a Gateway entrance and Student Achievement Centerat Truax.Plans or regional campus improve-ments also are on the drawing board.Collaborative teams o aculty, studentsand sta continue to work on concepts or improvements to the advancedmanuacturing programs. Using the working title o “The Ingenuity Center,”the College plans to create manuacturing acilities that most accurately simulate2011 manuacturing plants and also sparkinnovation in that feld. The Health Education building stillneeds approvals rom the city o Madisonand several other governmental agencies,said Roger Price, vice president o inrastructure services.Bob Dinndor, executive director o theMadison College Foundation, said donorscan be remembered with nameplates orplaques permanently placed on the wallso the new buildings and the College isseeking major gits rom those who wouldlike to name a building. To become one o these special donors, visit the Foundation atmadisoncollegealumni.org/donationsor call 608.246.6441.Gits can be mailed to the Madison CollegeFoundation, 3550 Anderson St., Madison, WI 53704.an endowed scholarship und. Long a part-ner in education with the College, NationalGuardian Lie began unding scholarshipsin 1991. An endowment, established by anoutright or planned git, is a long-term,reliable source o fnancial support or stu-dents who are in need o job training and/ or who seek additional undergraduate edu-cation. Because nearly all o the College’sgraduates live and work in Wisconsin, itadds great value to the workorce.Donors can contact the Foundation ofceat 608.246.6441 or emailFoundationAlumni@madisoncollege.orgto learn more.

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